Why are iOS apps blocked when LPC filtering is set to "none"?

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leightonn

January 24, 2016 16:50

I have a Netgear Nighthawk 7000 router with LPC enabled using the Genie app. The default filtering level is set to low but I want some devices to not have a filter. If I choose "none" then I can access websites without any problem but some iPhone/iPad apps such as App Store and social networking apps like Facebook and Instagram are not accessible. In fact, the apps are blocked regardless of which filter level I choose. If I disable LPC or use a bypass account I can use the apps. I don't want to install the genie app on all of the devices to bypass the filter. How can I get the "none" filter to allow the apps to work?

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  rotblitz January 25, 2016 00:39

  OpenDNS generally does not and cannot block apps, but DNS queries to certain domain names only.  OpenDNS does not know what client device and OS is being used at the time it sees a DNS query.

  You have to set the default filtering level to none if you don't want to use bypass accounts on devices with unresticted access. But you said that "The default filtering level is set to low".  So set it to none.

  "Why are iOS apps blocked when LPC filtering is set to "none"?"

  As I said, iOS apps are not blocked, just domain names are, but not so if the filtering level is set to none.

  "How can I get the "none" filter to allow the apps to work?"

  Again, this has nothing to do with "apps", but with the filtering level.  And "none" doesn't block anything.  So use that!

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